Sunday, May 10, 2026

Chump & Epstein


Chump and Epstein bound at the hip even in death.  The two became friends in the 80s and this continued to the mid '00s.  Some say beyond.  All those years, friends with a sex trafficker.  Rolldog with a sex trafficker.  But Chump insists he never partook.  Others, some survivors, say that he did.partake.  




David McAffee (RAW STORY) reports:

A childhood neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein has published a searing account of growing up in the gated Sea Gate community in Brooklyn during the 1960s, revealing that she lived on the same street as the convicted sex trafficker and exploring what may have shaped his capacity for exploitation.

Writer and poet Gabrielle Glancy discovered the connection after the Epstein files were released in January. "Following the RELEASE of the Epstein files in January, I began to notice a lot of posts about him on the 'I Grew Up in Sea Gate' Facebook group," she writes in Rolling Stone. "Someone posted a class picture with Epstein standing in the back row among a bunch of awkward-looking pre-teens at Mark Twain Junior High, where my mother taught English during the years he was a student there."

Glancy's essay reveals a deeply disturbing portrait of Sea Gate—an isolated, gated community described as "an island on an island"—where she claims pervasive sexual abuse flourished largely unchecked.

Speaking with a childhood acquaintance called "Paula" after the Epstein scandal broke, Glancy was confronted with a startling claim: "There were seven pedophiles on our street alone," Paula told her. "A neighbor named Litsky, she said, 'was f------both boys and girls.'"

Paula then raised a disturbing possibility about Glancy's own grandfather: "Did your grandfather molest Jeffrey Epstein, too? I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't doubt it."


Epstein was a creep.  He trafficked women and girls, men and boys.  Was he molested himself as a child?  Possibly.  But that doesn't excuse what he did.  In the same manner that James Comer doesn't deserve credit for Howard Lutnick's appearance before the House Oversight Committee last week, Epstein doesn't get a pass if he was molested himself.  You're judged by your actions.  


Troy Barile-Semleness (WHO WHAT WHY) notes:


Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick became the highest-ranking Trump Cabinet official to sit for House Oversight questions about his Epstein ties, and the session immediately turned on one problem: the island lunch that did not fit his earlier story. 

Reuters reported that Lutnick told the panel Jeffrey Epstein learned he and his family were vacationing in the Virgin Islands and invited them to lunch. Lutnick said he could not recall why the lunch happened in 2012, even though he had previously said he decided years earlier that he would never again be in a room with Epstein.

The most damaging part was the narrowing of the old denial. Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) told reporters Lutnick claimed that when he said, “I would never be in a room again with Jeffrey Epstein,” he meant only a room with just himself and Epstein. Walkinshaw said Lutnick was “perfectly OK with his wife and family being in a room with Epstein,” and added that the hearing should have been televised so the public could “see the sweat on his brow.”

Lutnick’s name appears more than a hundred times in the files, including many direct email exchanges with Epstein. The files show Lutnick and Epstein signed agreements on the same day in 2012 to buy stakes in a digital advertising company, and that Lutnick communicated with Epstein through Epstein’s assistant as recently as 2018. Lutnick has denied having a close relationship with Epstein and has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) called the testimony “embarrassing” and described Lutnick’s responses as “contortions and lies.” Chairman James Comer (R-KY) defended the voluntary appearance but also said, “It’s a felony to lie to Congress.” 

James Marsh, who represents some Epstein survivors, said the hearing did not provide “any real substance for identifying” alleged perpetrators of Epstein’s network and that survivors deserve “more than performative oversight.”


Daniel Hampton (RAW STORY) reports on conclusions Anand Giridharadas shared with Joanna Coles:


Author and journalist Anand Giridharadas identified Sunday what he called the single thing that has allowed the wealthy and powerful figures in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit to escape accountability for decades — and it's something most Americans have lost.

Speaking on The Daily Beast podcast with host Joanna Coles, Giridharadas argued the so-called "Epstein class" — a shadowy network of billionaires, financiers, professors, royals, and political operators — operates by a code of mutual protection that overrides any ideological divide.

"They just understand something fundamental that is the heart of this chapter which is that their shared interests with each other are more important to them than any ideas or principles they hold," Giridharadas told Coles, describing the conclusion of his five-part Substack series on the Epstein files.

He said the network's members "joust each other for your and my entertainment" on cable television, but "when the cameras are off… they have each other's backs." That mutual loyalty, he argued, is the secret weapon that has shielded the network from prosecution.

Giridharadas also floated that President Donald Trump may have launched the Iran war in part to change the subject from the Epstein files, which he called "the heart of the corruption and impunity of which [Trump] is, of course, one of our greatest living embodiments."




Wilkine Brutus (WLRN) reports:

The Congressional committee investigating the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled to arrive in Palm Beach next week. 

Democrats in the U.S. House Oversight Committee says they will hold field hearings on May 12 to continue the inquiry, which includes direct testimony from survivors. 

Officials said the hearing, led by ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia, is intended to provide a public platform for key witnesses in an area where the case initially drew scrutiny. Epstein's 2008 sweetheart plea deal with prosecutors in Palm Beach County let him avoid federal charges for years. 


Meanwhile, some Republicans are getting nervous over how Chump plans to use their donations.  Nick Hilden reports:


While Republican donors have contributed huge sums of money to President Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc. political machine, Politico reports that “mild panic” is beginning to take hold as they wonder how and if it will be spent in the midterms.

According to the latest reports, “There is mounting anxiety among party donors about when and how Trump will deploy his $300 million war chest, and concern that the White House is missing an opportunity to reinforce the party now when it is facing electoral threats on all sides. Some Republicans fear Trump may ultimately opt to hold back some of the money from the midterms and direct it to other purposes, such as legacy-building projects or anointing a successor in 2028.”


Still on Chump and money, AnnaMarie Houlis (MONEYWISE) reports:

The Federal Reserve's preferred inflation tracker just flashed another warning sign for the U.S. economy, and it could spell more financial pain ahead.

Data released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in late April shows inflation pressures remaining stubbornly elevated, while new quarterly forecasts suggest that Americans may continue facing higher prices, slower growth and elevated borrowing costs for months to come (1).


Let's wind down with this from the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee:


Washington, D.C. — Today, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Department of Defense Inspector General Platte B. Moring III demanding an investigation into whether corporations are using the Trump family as a conduit into the Pentagon to turn insider access into lucrative defense contracts..

“While Trump’s illegal war in Iran is driving up gas and grocery bills for working families, his sons are cashing in on defense contracts funded by hardworking taxpayers. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. invested in a drone company, and weeks later it landed its first ever Pentagon contract. The appearance of possible corruption is wrong and we need an independent watchdog to investigate it immediately,” said Ranking Member Robert Garcia.

In the letter to Inspector General Morning III, Ranking Member Garcia wrote, “Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s purchases, consultancies, and advisory roles create unprecedented intertwining of President Trump’s personal financial interests with U.S. policy and national security. Each new venture opens new opportunities to direct DOD funds to the first family’s pockets, and the Trump Administration appears to be taking advantage of those opportunities. Such actions raise concerns that DOD is rewarding companies with contracts for recruiting a Trump family member into their ownership group or directly onto their payroll. Such companies have amassed over $725 million in loans, grants, and awards since President Trump took office.”

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